From hiking and biking to offbeat art and drive-in movies, the California desert park and its surroundings offer plenty of ...

I have a very clear memory from childhood of hiking with my family through a sandy desert wash in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, the sun beating down as we trudged through the thick terrain. It was ...

Acacia and tamarisk trees sprout from shallow circular planters ... and preserve knowledge of the cultural traditions of the desert and the oasis. Children attend weekly music classes in the ...

For decades, water pumped from beneath the California desert has flowed to an oasis of lawns ... outside and uses the water for plants and trees in her drought-tolerant garden.

As the oasis dries out, cottonwoods struggle to survive, and palm trees are popping up, part of the canyon’s slow transition into a Colorado Desert-type habitat. On my recent trip to Big ...

I recently spent a few hours hiking through the oasis, just off Highway 62 and not far from the 10 Freeway in California’s high desert ... preserve’s cottonwood trees too.

I tried to select trees that would flourish in our USDA Zone 9, complement my succulent garden and produce filtered sunlight. One of my choices was the Desert Willow tree, Chilopsis Linearis.

Winter in the desert is a peculiar thing ... Joshua Tree is a space of remarkable natural beauty. The eponymous trees dot a landscape that's interesting in its own right. Rounded, beige boulders ...

Two people walk down a boardwalk across the Mojave Desert at Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge ... “it could eliminate nearly all suitable habitat for Joshua trees in the park.” Park rangers could ...

(Photo: Jack Board/CNA) Baraaduuz’s health now means it is increasingly difficult for him to travel to his desert oasis to tend to the trees. His grandson now cares for the forest, which has ...